In his comment yesterday on ‘Economic Cycle has Turned’, nanute wrote:“My biggest complaint with the current approach by the US Fed, and by extension, the Obama Administration is that there is not enough of a...
Police threw tear gas at the hundreds that protested the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Istanbul, Turkey on Tuesday. Some of the protesters threw fire bombs at a convention centre where leaders of the IMF and the World Bank were meeting. Bank windows were...
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The media do believe us the newest hero is Ben Bernanke. Probably their mind and many others come from another planet. And were not on Earth when Big Ben acted in the past. He became popular as the Helicopter Ben*...
"Saturday, 22 August 2009 Compass High Pay Commission Campaign Compass are running a campaign for a High Pay Commission to balance the Low Pay Commission that led to the minimum wage. They have a statement that anyone in support of it can sign. This is the web address...
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New York - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani went on CNN's American Morning on Friday to challenge President Obama's statement that Wall Street executives who awarded themselves $20 billion bonuses as their...
A Wikipedia entry describes him as “very intelligent, and well educated, but very lazy and gluttonous” and as “something of a scam artist” who “can be shockingly underhanded at times.” While a...
Make it easy, time for banker's guillotine At one point last week the Morgan Stanley $11bn pay pot was greater than the entire stock market value of the business. Morgan staff could buy the bank Goldman Sachs...
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The Anglican's most senior clerics have angered bankers and other financial institution workers by labelling them 'bank robbers' and 'asset strippers'.Some think that they've gone too far and are talking Marxist...
Britain & France describe Bonus profits of wealthy investment bankers and traders as perverse Gordon Brown UK and Christine Lagarde, France's economy minister, both want to end the payment system of Investment...
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If you thought you've had a bad week at work, consider the plight of Peter Fleischer and Detlef Leinberger, two German bankers who cost their company more than 500 million euros by approving a fund transfer to Lehman Brothers after the investment bank had already declared...
Now that the hills are alive with the sound of bankruptcy, everyone's favourite bombastic musical theatre maestro, Andrew Lloyd Webber, is doling out free tickets to his 'feel-good shows' for laid off British...
"This is a time to condemn the bankers, not to embrace them. They are the scoundrels who got us into the biggest economic mess since the Great Depression, lining their own pockets while destroying the life savings of those who trusted them. Yet both of our leading...
""Votron stays on after a wave of criticismby our correspondentJune 28, 2008, 09:10 a.m.BRUSSEL/AMSTERDAM (DFT) - Fortis expects a complete breakdown of the American financial markets within days or weeks. This explains, according to the bank insurer, the series of...